α. 1500s–1600s periago, 1600s pereago, 1600s periagoe, 1600s periaqua, 1600s perriaguer, 1600s peryago, 1600s peryagoes (plural), 1600s–1800s periagua, 1700s pariagua, 1700s pereager, 1700s pereauger, 1700s periagar, 1700s periaguay, 1700s periaugoe, 1700s perriago, 1700s perriagua, 1700s perriauger, 1700s perriaugre, 1700s perriaugua, 1700s perriawger, 1700s perryauger, 1700s–1800s periaga, 1700s– periauger, 1800s– perianger. 1599 W. Parker in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations I. 603 I came vnto Cape Desconoscido, where I put 56 of my men into a Periago, or long Indian Canoa.1672 W. Talbot tr. J. Lederer Discov. 18 People, whom they..force away..in Periago's.1691 T. Spencer True Relation Proc. against French 2 Making their Escape in their swift Periaquas.1696 S. Carolina Statutes at Large (1837) II. 105 Any boat, perriaguer or canoe.1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 29 Pereago's and Canoa's..are nothing but the Tree itself made hollow Boat-wise,..with a flat bottom, and the Canoa generally sharp at both ends, the Pereago at one only, with the other end flat.1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. App. 40/2 The Periaga kept Busking to and again.1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 148 To make my self a Canoe, or Periagua.1733 in New Jersey Archives XI. 311 A large new Perriagua of about 31 Foot in length.1736 in New Jersey Archives 452 The Owners of the other two Boats and Periauger.1738 in New Jersey Archives 532 Chased by three Perriagoes.1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 5 Coming hither..in their small canoes, or Perriawgers.1765 in F. B. Hough Siege of Detroit (1860) 115 Three Battoes and two Perriaugres.1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 498 The French traders..make of them periaguays.1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 74 Two boats (periagas) were detached from Detroit.1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xvi. 360 The periagua is a strange rough boat.1898 Rudder Dec. 407/2 Let go our hook just ahead of a large periauger-rigged sharpie, called the Pirate.1916 F. H. Cooper Some Colonial Hist. Beaufort County (Univ. N. Carolina: James Sprunt Hist. Publ.) 35 He had robbed a perianger of William Bell, a merchant of Pasquotank, in the Pamlico River,..and had taken over seventy-five pounds in money and goods.2004 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 2 Sept. y 1 The replica is about 30 feet long with two nearly 25-foot masts and rowing stations for at least six oars. ‘Ours is a medium-sized periauger,’ Ernst said. ‘They used to build them much bigger.’
β. 1600s peragua, 1600s piragoua, 1600s– piragua, 1700s paraguay, 1700s peraouger, 1700s pirogua, 1800s peroqua. 1609 Virginia richly Valued 41 A piragua or ferrie bote.1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 343 They..betake themselves to their Canoes, or Piragoua.1699 B. Sharp Voy. in W. Hacke Coll. Orig. Voy. ii. i. 10 They took one Peragua which they found at Anchor.1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War ii. 98 Maj. Church and his Forces were coming out against them..with 24 Peraougers, meaning Whale-boats.1792 tr. A. M. Rochon Voy. Madagascar in J. Pinkerton Coll. Voy. & Trav. (1814) XVI. 797 And because the canvas..is impenetrable to water, the hammock becomes a real pirogua.1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship III. xxvii. 9 The peroqua rapidly approached.1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 164 As soon as the prow of the piragua grounded.2001 Independent (Nexis) 3 Nov. 2 On an Ecotour to the Darien National Park you can..ride piraguas (Indian river canoes) up the Tuira river on a harpy eagle expedition.
γ. 1700s petiaguay, 1700s petiaugre, 1700s pettiagua, 1700s pettiaguer, 1700s pettiaugre, 1700s pettiaugua, 1700s pettiawga, 1700s pettie augre, 1700s pettyaugua, 1700s pettyawger, 1700s pettyoager, 1700s–1800s pettiauger, 1700s– pettyauger, 1800s petiauger, 1800s petiàugua, 1800s petteauger, 1800s pettyauga; in African-American usage 1900s– pattyaugah, 1900s– pattyauguh, 1900s– pettyauguh. 1704 N. Davis Exped. Gold Mines in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 268 Our Craft was but Canoes and Petty-Oagers.1736 in New Jersey Archives XI. 451 He recover'd himself and seized..a Pettiauger of Alderman Romer.1736 J. Wesley Jrnl. 4 Apr. I set out for Frederica in a pettiawga—a sort of flat-bottomed barge.1739 G. Whitefield in Life & Jrnls. (1756) 306 We went in a Pettiagua over the Sound.1740 Hist. Jamaica 298 A Petiaguay and Half-Galley.1776 N. Greene in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 301 Our people ran the petiaugres ashore.1814 Baltimore Patriot 16 Jan. 3/3 Arrived, here yesterday, a petteauger schr of Rockaway.1926 R. Smith Gullah 23 Me holleh one patty-augah.